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My name is Robert Lamb, and on today's episode, I'm going to be chatting with Adam Wayman, author of Lone Wolf, Walking the Line, Between Civilization and Wildness.

It's all about the European wolf, its recent comeback in the similarities between the human and lupine worlds.

Without further ado, let's jump right in.

Hi, Adam, welcome to the show. Hi, Rob. Thanks for having me, ma'am.

The new book is Lone Wolf, Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wilderness,

released as of June 3rd in all major formats. As you describe in the book,

your journey began in covering the possible

reintroduction of wolves into Scotland. You'd written about this prior. So I thought you might

walk us through this first. What happened to the wolves of the British Isles? And where do

things stand now with their potential reintroduction? And what happened to the wolves of the British Isles is pretty much the same that happened

to the wolf across its entire range.

The wolf used to be, once upon a time, the most widespread terrestrial land mammal on the

planet all across the northern hemisphere from the tundra right down to the tropics.

And pretty much everywhere

including in the British Isles they were pushed almost to extinction or in the British Isles

completely eradicated so there's a bunch of last wolf stories it seems that they hung on in

Scotland later than anywhere else the last definitive account for wolf in Scotland is 1621.

And that's a note for a bounty that was paid on a wolf, but it was an exceptionally high sum, which suggests by then that demand was already kind of outstripping supply.

And then it kind of verges into myth.

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